Table 5 Students with lower clinical competence and the 10 lowest self-assessed items at baseline (paired sample t-test)
From: Development of clinical competence – a longitudinal survey of nurse practitioner students
| Item no. | Item |
Baseline Mean (SD) |
Follow-up Mean (SD) | Difference Mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | I participate in quality development at my workplace | 3.45 (2.21) | 4.82 (3.28)a | 1.37 |
| 16 | I generate a creative learning environment for staff at my workplace | 3.58 (1.83) | 5.92 (1.88) | 2.34 |
| 18 | I take responsibility for competence development at my workplace | 3.82 (1.94) | 5.55 (3.01)a | 1.73⁎ |
| 13 | I develop and administer health-promoting and illness-preventive actions for patients | 4.09 (2.12) | 7.73 (1.27)a | 3.64⁎⁎ |
| 46 | I give health promotion advice and recommendations to patients by telephone, e-mail or other electronic devices | 4.20 (2.20) | 4.50 (3.54)a | 0.30 |
| 15 | I have knowledge of the interactions of various types of medication and what side-effects they may cause for the patients I am responsible for | 4.25 (2.14) | 7.75 (0.97) | 3.50⁎⁎ |
| 14 | I systematically gather information from each patient about her/his health resources | 4.25 (1.55) | 8.08 (1.00) | 3.83⁎⁎ |
| 45 | I assess patients’ health needs by telephone, e-mail or other electronic devices | 4.44 (2.01) | 5.44 (3.43)a | 1.00 |
| 8 | I interpret, analyse and reach alternative conclusions about patients’ health conditions after a detailed mapping of health history and health assessment (physical examination) | 4.42 (1.51) | 7.50 (1.24) | 3.08⁎⁎ |
| 7 | I exclude differential diagnoses when assessing patients’ health conditions | 4.42 (1.83) | 7.50 (1.17) | 3.08⁎⁎ |